Authorship：Principal investigator 

Grant amount： \17550000 （ Direct Cost: \13500000 、 Indirect Cost： \4050000 ）

本研究では、CEOの知財活動に関する職務経験が、特許戦略行動にどのような影響を及ぼすのかを検証することを1つの目的としていた。本年度の研究計画としては、過去の研究にもとづいて仮説を構築し、そして構築された仮説を昨年度に整備したデータを利用して予備的な実証分析を行うことであった。
まず、本研究では、アッパーエシュロン理論を使って、知財活動に関する職務経験がCEOの行動にどのように影響し、結果として、どのような影響が期待されるのかを仮説にまとめた。アッパーエシュロン理論とは、その企業の経営トップや経営陣の個性・特性・職務経験などが企業の行動・パフォーマンスに大きく影響を及ぼすといった理論である。
次に、本研究では、予備的な分析を行った。予備的な分析によれば、知財活動に関する職務経験があるCEOに交代すると、そうでないCEOに交代した場合と比較して、知財マネジメントは交代後数年間大きく変動することがわかっている。そして、どちらかというと、知財経験といった職務経験がCEOにあると、意外なことに知財マネジメントが消極的であることが明らかとなった。
企業の知財部は特許出願を1つの目標にしているため、知財部任せだと過大な特許出願になりがちである。しかし、本研究の予備的な分析結果は、CEOの知財活動の職務経験によって、知財部による過大な特許出願に歯止めをかけられることを示唆する。そして、ヒトの過去の経験によって、ヒトの行動が変化することも示唆された。

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Grant amount： \4290000 （ Direct Cost: \3300000 、 Indirect Cost： \990000 ）

In this study, we empirically examine the impact of patenting in SMEs on financing and performance. We find that patenting by SMEs increase their accessibility to venture capital funding relative to firms that do not, and also improve firm performance. The results also show that the expansion of the scope of software patents and the patent fee reduction schemes also play a significant contribution to the performance of SMEs in Japan.

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Grant amount： \17030000 （ Direct Cost: \13100000 、 Indirect Cost： \3930000 ）

This research project examined the effects of Japanese management characteristics (e.g., top management structure, employment) on the financial policies of Japanese firms, which have not been adequately taken into account in existing corporate finance research. The results of this research project revealed that the human characteristics and composition of top management had an important impact on changes in firms' financial strategies, and the strength of labor unions had an important impact on firms' financial policies, such as the quality and timing of information disclosure and debt ratios.

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Authorship：Principal investigator 

Grant amount： \4550000 （ Direct Cost: \3500000 、 Indirect Cost： \1050000 ）

First, our study reveals that CEO succession is likely to initiate strategic change whereas social ties between prior CEO and new CEO is unlikely to initiate strategic change. Second, patent strategy after CEO succession is more likely to be fluctuated over years if new CEO who has IP career in the past was succeeded than new CEO without IP career in the past. Third, executives including new CEOs who have IP career in the past is likely to adopt differentiated IP strategy from average strategy within the same industry. Lastly, executive including new CEOs who are able to exclusively concentrate on IP duty is likely to adopt differentiated IP strategy from average strategy within the same industry.

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Grant amount： \2860000 （ Direct Cost: \2200000 、 Indirect Cost： \660000 ）

The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between intellectual property and two sorts of advantage such as competitive advantage and financing advantage. This research will make contribution to providing the evidence that the more intellectual property a company owns the higher two sorts of advantage are. We have the following concrete results.
We finished our analysis regarding the relationship between intellectual property and competitive advantage. We have submitted our manuscript to Annual meeting of Academy of Management. However our manuscript was rejected. Thus this manuscript is under revision.
We also finished our analysis regarding the relationship between intellectual property and financing advantage. We are now preparing for submitting this manuscript to International Journal.

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Authorship：Principal investigator 

Grant amount： \2860000 （ Direct Cost: \2200000 、 Indirect Cost： \660000 ）

First of all, we collect survey data about patenting utilization practice and aggregate data. Then we investigate patent utilization strategy from life-cycle perspective in our paper. Secondly by using the same survey data, we preliminarily examine whether there is positive or negative connection between technology competitive position and patent utilization level. Thirdly we extract the necessary data item for my analysis from patent database and merge company financial data with patent data. Lastly we temporarily investigate how patent utilization strategy relates to corporative advantage.

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Authorship：Principal investigator 

Grant amount： \3640000 （ Direct Cost: \3100000 、 Indirect Cost： \540000 ）

(1)Firstly, we examine some problems in a previous research. We built the analysis framework for management and economics of the patent strategy. (2) During a research period, we carry out original survey. We finish collecting questionaire for our survey. We are writing a paper on the result of our survey. (3) We extract the necessary data item for analysis and a target patent data from three well-known patent databases for researchers. Moreover we plan to construct those databases. (4) In order to obtain patent data for our analysis, we develop a program to download data from each country patent electronic library automatically. We use the program to the download of data and examine our given research question.

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Grant type：Competitive

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